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Download now: Open-E JovianDSS Update 18

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Download now: Open-E JovianDSS Update 18

Date: Dec 15, 2016

Here comes a Christmas gift from Open-E’s engineers to all JovianDSS users – a new software update! Make yourself a present and download it right now to manage and protect your …

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On- & Off-site backup storage solutions with Open-E JovianDSS image

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On- & Off-site backup storage solutions with Open-E JovianDSS

Date: Nov 22, 2016

If you are looking for a solution to back up your data in an off-site location, look no further. With Open-E JovianDSS you can keep your business-critical data safe. As data is one of the most valuable cornerstones of modern businesses, and every company facing a 35% risk of bankruptcy if they don't have a Disaster Recovery plan, you shouldn’t go without one.

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Strategies for choosing the best hyper-converged platform

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Strategies for choosing the best hyper-converged platform

Date: Oct 18, 2016

As you already know from our previous articles, hyperconvergence is an infrastructure framework that enables using a single appliance that integrates key data center components: storage, networking, virtualization and compute. …

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Hyper-convergence with Open-E and ONE IN COM

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Hyper-convergence with Open-E and ONE IN COM

Date: Aug 18, 2016

Open-E’s Partner Program enables a smooth and effective cooperation with a great number of experienced resellers, system builders or OEMs. In addition to this, we ensure interoperability with our software, compatibility, quality …

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Hyper-converged HA infrastructure with Open-E JovianDSS VSA and VMware

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Hyper-converged HA infrastructure with Open-E JovianDSS VSA and VMware

Date: May 23, 2016

A hyper-converged infrastructure (aka hyperconvergence) is an IT infrastructure framework for integrating storage, networking and virtualization computing in a data center. In a hyperconvergence environment all elements of the storage, …

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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

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Open-E JovianDSS with HGST 4U60 Storage Enclosure

Apr 26, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer / Davide Villa - Sales Director EMEA at HGST

  • Introduction to HGST 4U60 Storage Enclosure
  • Active-Active HA Cluster with Open-E JovianDSS using the HGST JBOD (step-by-step cluster setup, testing the failover, disk replacement demo, running the IOmeter benchmark)
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Open-E DSS V7 HA Cluster Maintenance Mode - Part 2

Mar 17, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Cluster reconfiguration and rebuild without downtime (live demo)
  • Enable / disable Cluster Maintenance Mode
  • Ping node reconfiguration without downtime
  • Network Interface Card replacement without downtime
  • Storage Unit replacement without downtime
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E DSS V7

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Open-E DSS V7 HA Cluster Maintenance Mode

Mar 7, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • New features in Open-E DSS V7 up56
  • HA Cluster Maintenance Mode
  • Data replication: Block-mode, compressed and encrypted transport, Check_MK monitoring
  • E-mail notification based on severity levels
  • Driver updates and fixes
  • HA Cluster Maintenance Mode (live demo)
  • Cluster reconfiguration without downtime
  • Cluster node replacement without downtime
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Building a hyper-converged HA infrastructure with Open-E JovianDSS VSA and VMware

Feb 10, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Open-E JovianDSS storage feature set introduction (Data Integrity, Protection, Availability, Acceleration, Optimization, Accessibility, Virtualization)
  • Open-E JovianDSS as a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) on VMware ESXi
  • Setting up an Open-E JovianDSS VSA High Availability Load-balanced Cluster with Multipath
  • Testing the cluster
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Category: High Availability

Product: Open-E JovianDSS

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Active-Active Load-Balanced HA Storage Cluster with Open-E JovianDSS

Jan 18, 2016

Janusz Bak - Chief Technical Officer

  • Zero-Single-Point-of-Failure configuration
  • Pros and cons of Active-Active and Active-Passive setups
  • iSCSI and NFS Active-Active HA Cluster step-by-step setup
  • High Availability cluster setup in a virtual environment with VMware
  • Testing planned and unplanned failover